Lisa Hunter and Jonathan Frank At Better Medicare Alliance, we believe Medicare Advantage (MA) is the future of Medicare. Research continues to show it is helping beneficiaries reduce expenses and lead healthier lives. While numbers…
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What the Inspector General Report on Chart Reviews in Medicare Advantage Says – and Does Not Say
December 20, 2019
Jeremiah McCoy Last week, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released an analysis on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data regarding Medicare Advantage plans’ use of chart reviews, a tool to…
New Independent Government Reports Demonstrate the Value of Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Prescription Drug Rebates to Medicare Beneficiaries
September 24, 2019
Jeremiah McCoy Last week the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a report, in response to a request from Congress, analyzing the relationship between rebates for certain brand-name prescription drugs reimbursed by Medicare Part…
The Deeper Dive
Understanding A Recent Analysis of Gross Margins in Medicare Advantage
August 22, 2019 Jeremiah McCoy Earlier this month, the Kaiser Family Foundation released an issue brief titled, Financial Performance of Medicare Advantage, Individual, and Group Health Insurance Markets. In it, the authors examine and compare average annual gross…
Modernizing Medicare through Medicare Advantage
August 19, 2019
Allyson Y. Schwartz In the midst of the political debates about health care in America, Better Medicare Alliance hosted our third annual Medicare Advantage Summit last week. Throughout this two-day conference we heard first-hand how…
Deploying Value Based Care Contracts Under the Umbrella of Population Health Management: A Must for Success
August 14, 2019
Rose Maljanian, Chairman & CEO HealthCAWS The evolution of our nation’s healthcare system and ecosystem from fee for service to value based care has only just begun, and while the goal is to rapidly accelerate…